Trailer and slide show for Sabu's HOLD UP DOWN (HÔRUDO APPU DAUN), starring V6, w/ Yû Kashii, Ayum
There's a trailer and a slide show for Sabu's Hold Up Down (Hôrudo appu daun) on the page for the movie on the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) website. Hold Up Down is scheduled to première at PIFF in early October, and to open at The Globe Tokyo (Tôkyô Gurôbu-za) on October 28th.
As was previously reported here and there on ScreenAnarchy, Hold Up Down stars the members of the boy band V6: Masayuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagano, Yoshihiko Inohara, Gô Morita, Ken Miyake, and Jun'ichi Okada - who recently starred in Izuru Narushima's Fly, Daddy, Fly (Furai, dadi, furai). The rest of the movie's principal cast is as follows: Yû Kashii (she's also in Takashi Minamoto's Until the Lights Come Back (Daiteiden no yoru ni)), Ayumi Itô, Arata Furuta (he was in Kankurô Kudô's Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san and Tetsuo Shinohara's Karaoke Terror (Shôwa kayô daizenshû)), Yûki Himura (of Bananaman - on the right), Leo Morimoto (Morimoto Reo; he was in Satoshi Miki's In the Pool (In za pûru)), Masatô Ibu (he was in Satoshi Miki's Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu and Masaaki Tezuka's Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (Sengoku jieitai 1549)), Tomu Miyazaki (9th person listed), Eihi Shiina (she played Asami Yamazaki in Takashi Miike's Audition (a.k.a. "Ôdishon")), Osamu Shitara (of Bananaman - on the left), and Hitomi Takahashi.
Two years ago, the members of V6 starred in Sabu's Hard Luck Hero (a.k.a. "Hâdo rakku hîrô").
PIFF: Hold Up Down (w/ trailer and slide show) [note: trailer starts at 0:01:01]
Hold Up Down official website